stop/start services

[Pete Slagle]

Matthew Seaman wrote:

> eoghan wrote:
> 
>> I asked a question about stopping/starting tomcat, but I suppose I didnt
>> ask it right.
>> What I should have asked is:
>> How do I stop/start services that I have enabled in my rc.conf, such as
>> mysql, tomcat etc. I have tried from my rc.d/ with tomcat but it will
>> not work for me...
> 
> Like this:
> 
>     /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tomcat.sh start
> 
> If that doesn't print out anything then double check what's in /etc/rc.conf
> If the service apparently starts up, but then you find it's not running
> a few seconds later, then check any log files that application uses -- it's
> quite often the case that there's a configuration fubar somewhere that is
> causing the service to give up.

"Service" instead of daemon?   Our assimilation by the Borg proceeds apace.